Dreams in which a garden features tend to refer to your inner feelings, areas of potential growth and change, and what it is you are trying to cultivate in your life. Considering the garden’s features will tell you whether you are successfully cultivating the seedlings of your potential or allowing them to become choked and killed by weeds. Gardens also reveal the inner life of the dreamer, allowing you to see what you appreciate about yourself; they also represent features of the difficult process of self-discovery, as symbolized by the tree of knowledge.
Other interpretations suggest that dreams of gardens express a desire to be closer to nature or your natural self. Sometimes, dream gardens are symmetrical with a central point; this mandala symbol represents the inner wholeness of your true self and to dream of a garden that reproduces its form may indicate inner healing after a period of unease or even illness.
If your dream garden is beautiful, this suggests creativity and abundance in your life, whereas an overgrown neglected garden warns that you have neglected your personal growth. It is time to clear away the weeds and start nurturing your talents.
The garden is also the symbol of the feminine attributes and the qualities of wildness that need to be tamed in order to create order. Closed or walled gardens, in particular, have this significance and can represent virginity. Freud saw the garden as an image of the female genitals, with the dreamer perhaps facing the carnal temptations associated with the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
If your dream garden is square or circular in shape, this suggests unconscious wisdom and insight.
If there is a pool in the garden this refers to memories of childhood or hidden, unexpressed emotions.
If you are gardening in your dream, this indicates that you are in the act of creation; the dream may be referring to your psychological growth and increasing emotional maturity. To see a vegetable garden symbolizes increased prosperity will come your way through diligence and care; it also suggests stability and inner growth. To see a flower garden in your dream foretells of tranquility, comfort, true love and a happy home in your future. To see a sparse, weed-infested garden indicates that you have neglected your emotional and spiritual needs. A garden gate may represent a welcome invitation to a more natural environment for those detained awhile by city life. Walking through a garden gate may represent moving into a new phase of life; new opportunities await you. An open gate represents changes for the future; a closed gate means problems or obstacles ahead
A conservatory or hothouse full of exotic plants symbolizes the unconscious being kept under tight control. A fountain in the garden is a symbol of encouragement, renewed hope and a release of creativity. A well in the garden may stand for your most valued talents and inner resources, but if the well is dried up and you cannot draw water from it, this suggests frustration at being unable to find an outlet for your talents. To see a neat and wellkept yard reflects your ability to maintain and organize aspects of your outside life, such as work and your social activities. To see a messy and neglected yard denotes those aspects of your life that are out of your control.
See Also: Plants entry in NATURE AND THE SEASONS; TREES.
[1](Flower garden) A garden in a dream means repentance, and repentance from sin in a dream means a garden. Watering one’s garden in a dream means having marital relations.
If one sees his garden dry in a dream, it means that his wife has commenced her menstrual period during which he is not permitted to have sexual intercourse with her. Ifhe sees someone else watering his garden in a dream, it means that such a person will betray him with his wife. Ifone sees himself entering an unknown garden with its trees unattended and its pasture unkempt in a dream, it means distress and worries.
A garden in a dream also represents a woman. Theyboth need water and they both bear fruits or children. In this case, if the garden is interpreted to represent a woman, then its trees and fruits represent her tribe, family and children.
An unknown garden in a dream also represents the Holy Qur’an.
A garden in a dream also represents a marketplace, a new bride’s house, a property, an animal domesticated for service, a shop, a business, a tavern, a bathhouse, generosity, an army made of slaves, cattle or personal assets. Ifone sees himself inside a garden in a dream, it means comfort and growth in his life.lfthe house to which this garden belongs is God’s house, then the man seeing it is in paradise. Ifhe is sick, it means that he will die from his illness and enter that paradise.
If the garden is unknown in the dream, it means martyrdom and particularly ifhe finds inside the garden a womancallinghim to herself, or to drink milk or honeyfrom the garden’s rivers and the same is true if the garden does not look like the ones he is accustomed to see in the world. Otherwise, If one sees himselflooking at a garden, and ifhe is unmarried, it means that he will meet a suitable woman and get married.
If he is married, it means that he will receive joy from his wife equal to that which he received from the garden in his dream.
If one finds within such a garden a group of associates or colleagues, the garden then represents a marketplace.
If one sees a servant or a worker of his urinating inside a well or a stream inside such a garden in the dream, it means that a relative will betray the interests of the family.
A garden whose owner is known in a dream represents a mosque, a park, people of knowledge, ignorant people, the generous ones or the stingy ones. It also represents a meeting place where the rich and the poor, the righteous and the insolent gather.
A garden in a dream also may indicate a religious center, a school, a center for scientific research and studies, a place of worship, etcetera.
If one enters a garden at the season of plucking its fruits in a dream, it means glad tidings, money and increase in one’s good deeds, marriage or children. On the other hand, if he enters a garden in the fall in a dream, it means defamation, indebtedness, divorce, or it could mean loss of a child. Seeing a deceased person in a garden means that he is in paradise.
A garden in a dream also represents a source of nourishment. Its fruits are colorful and their taste ranges from sweet to salty and from sour to bitter.
(See Also: House garden, Qur’iin)
[2]Universal Landscape: Structured and boundaried self-care and nurturance.
Dreaming Lens: Were you in a garden? Were you trying to get to a garden? Were you tending to the plants and soil, or enjoying the fruits of labor? Were you alone or with others? What sort of garden was it? Was it beautifully tended or full of weeds?
Personal Focus: A garden is a planned, deliberate construct that creates growth in a confined area. Whether the growth is for beauty or consumption, it represents the feminine principle of creativity and nurturing. The structure and boundaries of the garden are the expression of the masculine principle in action. In this way, gardens are a microcosm of the act of creation itself. The act of gardening is often reported to produce significant levels of serenity, relaxation, and pleasure for the enthusiast. In a dream, a garden may represent a need or desire to produce an atmosphere of peace, abundance, or nurturance in your life. The type of garden, the state it is in, and what you are doing in relation to it reflects what area is being expressed and your current ability to be effective in it.
Different types of gardens have different distinctions of meaning. A flower garden might represent a desire for beauty and grace for grace’s sake, or artistic creativity. A vegetable garden signifies a proactive consideration of self-nurturing and healthy living. An herb garden points to the need to enhance the flavor of your life and connect to more esoteric modes of expression. A rock garden points to structure and memories and beauty that need no attention. Public gardens relate more to issues connected with social structures and your outside life. A botanical reserve calls forth a desire to connect with a personal sense of beauty that is shared with others. A publicly shared garden may indicate primal desires to return to older ways of communal living.
If the garden is overgrown, it may be reflecting a lack of attentiveness to your needs for sustenance or creativity. Weeds are unwanted expressions that have the capacity to strangle that which is held dear. With any dream that contains a peaceful and serene setting, it is important to consider the possibility that there is something outside of the confines of the garden that needs your attention.
[3]Generally, the inner life of the dreamer, the area of growth or change in your life; what you are trying to cultivate in yourself; feelings of peace; being near to one’s natural self, meditative attitude.
See Also: second example in wife under family.
Example: ‘I was working in quite a large garden by my house.
A pan of the garden was like a little alcove by other buildings.
The garden was kidney shaped. I had dug this small plot and was considering how I might relax and sunbathe there. My daughter said I should have worked harder on it—dug it better. I felt intense emotions of resentment and anger at her criticism. I staned telling her what a bad time I had in the past. How difficult it was even to work, let alone work hard’ (Beatrice G). This shows the garden as depicting what one has ‘worked on’ or produced in life. This could mean externally, or one’s own nature.
The daughter is Beatrice’s own self criticism, which pushes her on, though she has a tendency to want to relax ‘in the sun*. This aspect of garden suggests how ‘fruitful’ one’s life has been socially and spiritually.
Beautiful garden: suggests satisfaction at time of dream. Overgrown, weeds in garden: awareness of particular parts of your personality which need working on. Perhaps negative habits need weeding out’. Square, circular garden: holds a lot of your gathered wisdom and insights which would be useful if made conscious. Garden pool: childhood, or early stage in the evolution of one’s self consciousness, during which there was a sense of communal awareness; sense of unity with life.
See Also: dream processing; the self under archetypes. Idioms: bear garden, up the garden path.
[4]Symbol: The garden is a symbol of paradise.
Vision: Women who are dissatisfied and unhappy often dream about a fenced-in garden with beautiful flowers they can’t reach. Walking through a garden filled with beautiful flowers means emotional stability, satisfaction, and new friendships.
An overgrown garden: a sign of remorse about past mistakes and things you failed to do. Taking a walk through a beautiful garden: pleasant experiences ahead.
A garden surrounded by a high fence: someone will deny you an urgent favor because you have failed to show how you truly feel.
The dream is usually a sign that you are isolating from the people around you.
Depth Psychology: The condition of the garden in your dream is a symbol of the state of your inner life, how seriously you take your responsibilities, and how well you use your talents and natural abilities. What does the garden look like? What is growing there? See Flower, Grass, Pasture, Tree.
[5]You are dreaming of abundance, prosperity, and your ability to create structure and the boundaries of self-care and nurturance.
A garden is a planned, deliberate construct that creates growth in a confined area. Whether the growth is for beauty or consumption, it represents the feminine principles of creativity and nurturing.
The structure and boundaries of the garden are the expression of the masculine principle in action. In this way, gardens are a microcosm of the act of creation itself.
The act of gardening is often reported to produce significant levels of serenity, relaxation, and pleasure for the enthusiast. In a dream, a garden may represent a need or desire to produce an atmosphere of peace, abundance, or nurturance in your life.
The type of garden, the state it is in, and what you are doing in relation to it reflect what area is being expressed and your current ability to be effective in it.
[6]The garden is the field in which nature is submitted, ordered, and rationalized. For this reason, it is a symbol of dominion of the conscious over the chaotic unconscious (that is, the jungle). Also, it represents caution over spontaneity. At the same time, the characteristic intimacy of gardens (favorable place for lovers) makes them considered to be an archetype of the inner world, subjectivity, and feelings. So, dreaming of a well-kept garden can indicate peace and harmony, while seeing one abandoned means that you are not taking care of yourself. Water, ponds, and fountains that you find in the garden are the spiritual energy that makes up your nature. Finally, after a period of difficulties, this dream can manifest inner healing (See Also: FLOWERS)
This dream predicts that the sleeper will marry a beautiful woman or a good looking man.
[7](See Also: Flowers, Fruit, Herbs, Seeds, Vegetables, Weeds)
The condition of the garden can indicate the condition of many things, including your health, a relationship, or a business venture. So, a weedy or barren garden isn’t a good sign, whereas a flourishing garden is very positive.
Planting a garden: Seeding the soil of self with specific virtues that you hope will grow to fullness.
Weeding a garden: Ridding yourself of things that entangle and deter real maturation.
Tilling a garden: Preparation and readiness. Putting things in order so that your goals have good ground on which to develop.
An alternative type of island or oasis dream in which a blossoming garden equates to your image of paradise, or the attainment of some spiritual goal portrayed by what’s growing.
[8](1) A garden may be a symbol of your true self, particularly if the garden is symmetrical: square or rectangular or circular, and with a central point.
(2) Lush growth in the garden may symbolize (a promise of) personal growth.
(3) A pool or fountain in the garden may symbolize a source of (new’) life in your psyche; or the pure uncontaminated life of the person who is true to himself or herself, who has not exchanged the truth of himself or herself for a false persona (for persona).
(4) Any disorder in the garden will probably represent your owrn disordered psyche - weeds instead of flow ers, decay instead of growth. Have you been pursuing weong aims to the neglect of your true self, your ‘destiny5?
[9]1- Dreaming of a garden can be fascinating, because it may indicate the area of growth in our own lives, or it can be that which we are trying to cultivate in ourselves. It often represents the inner life of the dreamer and that which we totally appreciate about our own being.
2- The garden is often the symbol of the feminine attributes and the qualities of wildness which need to be cultivated and tamed in order to create order. Closed gardens particularly have this significance and can represent virginity.
3- A garden can represent a form of paradise, as in the Garden of Eden.
The dreamer should look to some spiritual relaxation.
[10]See Also: Field.
The garden is the place where our soul joins nature. It symbolizes longing, fertility, and a satisfying love life.
A place of harmony and relaxation (as well as sin, as in the “Garden of Eden’), a place to become grounded and a place of civilized nature, corresponding to a “civilized” inner life.
It is the domestic, fenced-in area in contrast to the untamed Field, or even Forest. Stepping into a garden is like retreating from the harshness of the outside world, looking for protection and relaxation. In Egypt the garden has always been the symbol for woman. According to Freud, female sexuality.
[11]Gardens are about what we’re trying to cultivate in life.They represent areas of potential growth and are also related to the, sometimes difficult, process of self-discovery.
• The state of your dream garden will tell you much about your current process. Are there lots of weeds that need clearing out? Or perhaps your garden is overgrown and needs cutting back.
• Is your garden in need of watering or is everything growing healthily? Are new shoots appearing signifying new growth and development in your life? Or is the garden full of dead wood indicating your need to let go of things that no longer serve you?
[12]Traditionally, dreaming of beautiful gardens is symbolic of great happiness and love.
If the garden is wild it means that you may have difficulties, but with some care and attention you are capable of overcoming them.
A garden filled with fresh growing vegetables denotes that you will be prosperous only if you exercise diligence in caring for your business.
If your dream garden is of flowers and fresh green trees then it foretells of a true love and a pleasant home in lovely surroundings. Should the garden be dying then you must take steps to secure your enterprise.
[13]A garden represents self-expression and reflects the level at which your personality is developed. You may have planted new ideas, hopes, and wishes in your garden, which will bloom in the spring for life’s fulfillment.
A flower garden may represent the myriad variety of personal expressions that can blossom when cared for.
A vegetable garden represents you: plans for sustaining life, or it can represent your expectations for the future.
A walk through your garden suggests that you are in appreciation of what you have created.
[14]To dream about a fruit or vegetable garden suggests that your efforts and conscientiousness will reap benefits in the end. This dream is also representative of maturity and steadiness.
To dream about a flower garden indicates peace, tranquility, love, and happiness at home. You prefer to nurture others.
To dream about a sparse weed-infested garden indicates that you are not paying attention to your religious or spiritual needs. You have let things go and they are reminding you to pay attention.
[15]To see a garden in your dreams, filled with evergreen and flowers, denotes great peace of mind and comfort.
To see vegetables, denotes misery or loss of fortune and calumny.
To females, this dream foretells that they will be famous, or exceedingly happy in domestic circles.
To dream of walking with one’s lover through a garden where flowering shrubs and plants abound, indicates unalloyed happiness and independent means.
[16]This dream is about the state of your life, your level of fruition, abundance and manifestation.
If the garden is flourishing, it is because you are on track and being true to your nature.
If the garden is in disrepair, it is symbolic that you need to pluck the weeds that don’t serve you and plant the seeds of your creative dreams and aspirations.
See Also: Fruit, Flowers, Harvest.
[17]A well-kept neat garden but without flowers signifies an occasional brief disturbance but on the whole a comfortable life; a neglected, overgrown garden indicates adversity, but according to old Franx- imus, a dream of a garden in bloom is the absolute best and foretells spiritual satisfaction, domestic love, and financial security.
What more is there!
[18]Fruits of your own labor; results of your work in growing and learning.
A garden needs tending, watering, nurturing; a lot of weeds indicates you are not on top of things in daily life, so spend more time getting organized, sorting out priorities. Healthy way to still the mind, rebuild and recharge.
[19]To dream of walking in a garden and gathering here and thete a flower, shows a person to be much given to pride and arrogancy, and to have high thoughts of him or herself.
To dream of seeing fair gardens shows a man will marry a chaste and beautiful wife, for gardens are strictly enclosed.
[20]Material aspects: Dreaming of a garden can be fascinating because it may indicate the area of growth in our own lives, or it can be that which we are trying to cultivate in ourselves. It often represents our inner life and that which we totally appreciate about our own being.
[21]It may be a symbol of lost innocence or youth. Folklore tells us that dreaming of beautiful gardens is symbolic of great happiness and love.
If the garden is wild, it means that you may have difficulties but with some care and attention you are capable of overcoming them.
[22]Psychological / emotional perspective: The garden is often a symbol of the wilder feminine attributes, which need to be cultivated and tamed in order to create clarity. Enclosed gardens particularly have this significance and traditionally have represented virginity.
[23]A beautiful garden in glorious bloom is said to represent the psyche and the growth of the soul; the transition from earthly realms to heavenly planes, and peace and harmony.
A sparse, weedinfested garden suggests that the spiritual needs of the dreamer should be tended.
[24]A garden can represent a form of paradise, as in the garden of eden. We are able to allow ourselves some spiritual relaxation and life need not be too much of a trial.
Dreaming of herbs in a garden is often to do with the magical and mystical.
[25]1. If the garden is in poor condition, it means one should take steps to correct whatever is in bad shape in one’s life, usually of a romantic nature.
2. Passion.
3. Spirit.
4. Origin of “roots.”
[26]To dream of a garden of flowers denotes comfort and peace of mind.
A garden of vegetables indicates a need to be careful, frugality.
A garden symbolizes growth and expansion.
[27]The happiest kind of a life and an income sufficient for all one’s needs is indicated where there is a dream of walking through a lovely garden with one’s lover.
[28]Gives gender-specific: In a woman’s dream a garden signifies her own personal space or territory, whereas for a man it will suggest a shared space.
[29]1. Work;
2. Ministry of the body of Christ;
3. Place of intimacy with God;
4. Field of labor;
Gen. 2:8-10; 4:2-3; Is. 51:3; 58:11; Jer. 2:21;
[30]A beautiful garden in a dream means that your soul is peaceful and happy.
A wild, overgrown garden symbolizes a need for spiritual nourishment.
[31]A very fortunate dream, Nature at her best, but of course it must be a Garden that is well kept, and not neglected. It concerns money matters.
[32]A dream of a lovely garden, whether large or small, is a portent of peaceful pursuits in good company: and of no financial worries.
[33]Spiritual cultivation which brings blessings; research particular kind of plant and see “cultivate” and “planting”
[34]Symbolic of love and flourishing, Jer. 31:12, Song. 4:12
[35]A garden is interpreted as the observer’s wife.
[36]To dream you are walking in a garden, is of a very favorable nature: it portends elevation in fortune and dignity. To the lover, it denotes great success, and an advantageous marriage; to the tradesman, it promises inerease of business; to the farmer, plentiful crops; and to the sailor, pleasant and prosperous voyages.
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barren, a: have serious intentions for your project to succeed.
beautiful, a: the growth of perennial ideas and habitual emotions.
beautiful flowers, with: imminent matrimony; it takes time to grow a life.
composting vegetables: your energies can be remolded, regurgitated and reused.
digging up a: wil uncover unwanted materials; discard those you cannot reverse.
disorderly and dirty: wil go into bankruptcy: your soul’s.
Eden, of the, of: a suitable time to pursue an affair; an inauspicious time to consummate it.
fenced in: are in denial because you cannot accept the vulnerability of your true feelings.
friend’s: your social life is too organized, leaving no time for openness.
neglected: spiritual matters need to be fertilized; nothing grows without love.
neighbor’s: wil have prosperity and expansion of the family.
overgrown: wil weed remorse for what you failed to do.
planting seeds: ideas nurtured with a wel -planned control ed attitude wil grow.
relative’s: success in spite of present difficulties; in a crunch, blood is your only support.
ruined by weather: period of confusion with no time for idle pleasure.
insects: are behaving in an irrational and irritable way; redirect your energy.
taking care of a: increasing security through a positive constructive life.
trees, full of: your support and help are needed by an old acquaintance.
walking in a: your work is your wish fulfil ment for pure decorousness and contented mien.
watering flowers in a: expect too many favors from others.
well-kept: wel -handled advantageous deals are productive.
working in the: a good harvest of congenial activities and the fruits of your labors.
with a pickax: have not begun to dig deep enough.
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